School Play

S06 E01 • Wednesday, Nov 7, 1979 • Nov 7

A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

S06 E02 • Wednesday, Nov 14, 1979 • Nov 14

A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

The Brylcreem Boys

S06 E03 • Wednesday, Nov 21, 1979 • Nov 21

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

An Affinity with Dr. Still

S06 E04 • Wednesday, Nov 28, 1979 • Nov 28

Home Movies

S06 E05 • Wednesday, Dec 5, 1979 • Dec 5

Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

Sweet Wine of Youth

S06 E06 • Wednesday, Dec 12, 1979 • Dec 12

Speed King

S06 E07 • Wednesday, Dec 19, 1979 • Dec 19

In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

Pews

S06 E08 • Saturday, Jan 12, 1980 • Jan 12

Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

Gentle Folk

S06 E09 • Saturday, Jan 19, 1980 • Jan 19 • 1h 15m

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

Trouble with Gregory

S06 E10 • Wednesday, Jan 23, 1980 • Jan 23

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

Lifelike

S06 E11 • Saturday, Jan 26, 1980 • Jan 26

A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

The Enigma

S06 E12 • Saturday, Feb 9, 1980 • Feb 9

An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

Hesther for Example

S06 E13 • Saturday, Feb 16, 1980 • Feb 16

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

The Best of Friends

S06 E14 • Saturday, Mar 8, 1980 • Mar 8

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

In Hiding

S06 E15 • Saturday, Mar 15, 1980 • Mar 15

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

Rottingdean

S06 E16 • Saturday, Mar 22, 1980 • Mar 22

Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

The Dig

S06 E17 • Friday, Apr 18, 1980 • Apr 18

Happy

S06 E18 • Friday, Apr 25, 1980 • Apr 25

Mary's Wife

S06 E19 • Friday, May 2, 1980 • May 2

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

Games Without Frontiers

S06 E20 • Friday, May 9, 1980 • May 9

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

The Unborn

S06 E21 • Friday, May 16, 1980 • May 16

A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

Electric in the City

S06 E22 • Friday, May 23, 1980 • May 23

Blue Remembered Hills

S06 E23 • Friday, May 30, 1980 • May 30

Repeated from Play for Today

Thank You Comrades

S06 E24 • Friday, Jun 6, 1980 • Jun 6

Coming Out

S06 E25 • Friday, Jun 13, 1980 • Jun 13

Crest of a Wave

S06 E26 • Friday, Jun 20, 1980 • Jun 20

Freedom of the Dig

S06 E27 • Friday, Jun 20, 1980 • Jun 20

A Walk in the Forest

S06 E28 • Sunday, Jul 6, 1980 • Jul 6

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

S06 E29 • Sunday, Jul 13, 1980 • Jul 13

A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.

Dalhousie's Luck

S06 E30 • Sunday, Aug 3, 1980 • Aug 3

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

An Ordered Life

S06 E31 • Sunday, Aug 10, 1980 • Aug 10

German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, against his father's wishes, joins the Wehrmacht and is killed in a railway accident in 1943.